Richard Rogers' Essay Page
(updated 28 June 2010)

Selected Publications:

"'Your Guess is as Good as Any': Indeterminacy, Dialogue, and Dissemination in Interpretations of Native American Rock Art," Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 2 (2009): 44-65.

"Beasts, Burgers, and Hummers: Meat and the Crisis of Masculinity in Contemporary Television Advertisements," Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture 2 (2008): 281-301.

“Deciphering Kokopelli: Masculinity in Commodified Appropriations of Native American Imagery,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4 (September 2007): 233-255. Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2007. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Volume 4 Issue 3, September 2007. doi:10.1080/14791420701459715 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14791420701459715)

“Kokopelli: Southwest Icon and Male Fantasy,“ Communication Currents 2.4 (August 2007).

“Beasts, Burgers, and Hummers: Meat and the Crisis of Masculinity in Contemporary Television Advertisements,” in Communication at the Intersection of Nature and Culture: Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment (pp. 14-24), ed. Barb Willard & Chris Green, Chicago: DePaul University, 2008.

“Overcoming the Preservation Paradigm: Toward a Dialogic Approach to Rock Art and Culture,” in American Indian Rock Art, Volume 33 (pp. 53-66), ed. Don D. Christensen and Peggy Whitehead, Tucson, AZ: American Rock Art Research Association, 2007.

“From Hunting Magic to Shamanism: Interpretations of Native American Rock Art and the Contemporary Crisis in Masculinity,” Women’s Studies in Communication 30 (Spring 2007): 78-110.

“From Cultural Exchange to Transculturation: A Review and Reconceptualization of Cultural Appropriation,” Communication Theory 16.4 (November 2006): 474-503. This is an electronic version of an article published in Communication Theory. Complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Communication Theory, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journalâs website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/COMT or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.

“Rock Art: Indigenous Images, Historic Inscriptions and Contemporary Graffiti,” DocumentaryWorks, ed. Mark Neumann, April 2006.

“The Gender of Water and the Pleasure of Alienation:  A Critical Analysis of Visiting Hoover Dam” (with Julie Kalil Schutten), The Communication Review 7.3 (August 2004):  259-283.

“‘Is This a Great Time or What? :-)’  Information Technology and the Erasure of Difference,” World Communication 28 (1999):  26-47.

“Overcoming the Objectification of Nature in Constitutive Theories:  Toward a Transhuman, Materialist Theory of Communication,” Western Journal of Communication 62 (1998): 244-272.

“A Dialogics of Rhythm:  Dance and the Performance of Cultural Conflict,” Howard Journal of Communications 9 (1998): 5-27.

“Rhythm and the Performance of Organization,” Text & Performance Quarterly 14 (1994):  222-237.

"Pleasure, Power and Consent:  The Interplay of Race and Gender in New Jack City," Women’s Studies in Communication 16 (1993): 62-85.

1984 to Brazil:  From the Pessimism of Reality to the Hope of Dreams,” Text & Performance Quarterly 10 (1990):  34-46.

Some Older Conference Papers:

"Sensual Experience and the 'Wild': Glen Canyon Before 'Lake' Powell." Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association convention, Organization for Research on Women and Communication, Long Beach CA, March 2002.

"An Ethnography of Place and Feeling: Environmental Dialogics and Situated Experience at Powell Reservoir." Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association convention, Rhetoric and Public Address Division, Long Beach CA, March 2002.

"World Music: Commodification, Imperialism and Resistance." Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association convention, Intercultural Communication Division, Vancouver, B.C., February 1999.


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